negligible

CEFRC1

/ˈnɛɡlɪd͡ʒɪbəl/

adjective

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adjective
So small or unimportant that it can be ignored.
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adjective
Extra detail
Able to be neglected, ignored or excluded from consideration; too small or unimportant to be of concern.

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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We found errors, but their effects were negligible.
Mario Balotelli replaced Tevez but his contribution was so negligible that he suffered the indignity of being substituted himself as time ran out, a development that encapsulated a wretched 90 minutes for City and boss Roberto Mancini.

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Mario Balotelli replaced Tevez but his contribution was so negligible that he suffered the indignity of being substituted himself as time ran out, a development that encapsulated a wretched 90 minutes for City and boss Roberto Mancini.
2011 April 11, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 3 - 0 Man City”, in BBC Sport
Only unrealistic dreamers can suggest that Louis XVI might have accepted defeat and immediately turned himself into a constitutional monarch, even if he had been a less negligible and stupid man than he was, married to a less chicken-brained and irresponsible woman, and prepared to listen to less disastrous advisers.
1962, Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Revolution. 1789-1848, page 61

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From negligence/negligent + -ible, as if from New Latin *negligibilis, from Latin neglegō (“to neglect”) + -ibilis (“-ible”).